Test 11 · ★ · Uncle Remus, That Deceitful Jug, part 33: an old jug makes…

bro, why does Uncle Remus call the calaboose a place for news?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Uncle · What happens: do, call · To what, where: calaboose · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 597 «Uncle Remus, That Deceitful Jug, part 33: an old jug makes the newspaper men tease Uncle Remus» of the books course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: the test at school.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 does	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 does	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 does	advmod
4	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	Uncle	Uncle	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 call	nsubj
6	Remus	Remus	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Uncle	flat
7	call	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 does	ccomp
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 calaboose	det
9	calaboose	calaboose	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 call	obj
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 place	det
11	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 call	xcomp
12	for	for	ADP	_	13 news	case
13	news	news	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 place	nmod
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 does	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present						bro vocative	tree rules
2	call	present	Uncle	the calaboose					vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent calaboose=Recipient

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Cause he says the staff wrote lies there

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cause	cause	SCONJ	_	3 says	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 staff	det
5	staff	staff	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 wrote	nsubj
6	wrote	write	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 says	ccomp
7	lies	lie	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 wrote	obj
8	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 wrote	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	he						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	write	past	the staff	lies		there			vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lie=Theme

Option 2

Cause of the jug

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cause	cause	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	of	of	ADP	_	4 jug	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 jug	det
4	jug	jug	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Cause	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cause			the jug					nom cause «event transitive»: of=patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Cause he says go git news to print there

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cause	cause	SCONJ	_	3 says	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 says	ccomp
5	git	git	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 news	compound
6	news	news	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 go	obj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 print	mark
8	print	print	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 go	advcl
9	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 print	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	he			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	go	infinitive		git news		vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location news=Theme
3	print	to-infinitive			there	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Cause it's warm

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cause	cause	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 warm	nsubj
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 warm	cop
4	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Cause	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cause	imperative	you not said here						vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition
2	is	present	it					warm property	tree rules

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